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27 books in 3 days

CEO Blog

This time I am wondering what the mice were supposed to be cooking and if it burned on since "Not a creature was stirring - not even a mouse" Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stephenson. Definitely worth reading. Twas the Night Before Christmas. Can't be all business. This was purely for leisure. It was still a good read.

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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

A champion, by definition, is deeply invested in getting the deal signed, and the key to working effectively with him is to focus on collaborating to convince the decision maker to say “yes.”. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson. With that, Stephenson felt he could defend his decision.